Virginia Department of Education has put together a comprehensive resource list of what to include and how to write an acceptable use policy (AUP)for your school or district. The page includes resources such as templates, samples, and resources relating to ethics, safety, and copyright.

The Association of Curriculum an Development (ASCD) calls on parents, educators, policymakers, and communities to join forces to ensure our children become productive, engaged citizens of the 21st century. This website contains resources to help promote the whole child. Resources include podcasts, research articles, videos and a school rating instrument.

Trying to develop or revise a cell phone policy for your school or district? National School Safety and Security Services presents arguments against allowing or encouraging students to have cell phones and pagers in school.

Need to cite a source? Citation Machine allows you to create a citation for any media form. This is a handy tool for teachers trying to encourage original work, discourage plagiarism, and avoid copyright infringement.

If your teachers need a curriculum resource that helps them teach their students to use the internet safely, responsibility and effectively, then you need to visit CyberSmart! This cybersafety site not only has K-12 student curriculum but also a CyberSmart! tool bar. The tool bar has drop downs such as best web sites, web 2.0 skills, curriculum resources and library resources to name a few. CyberSmart also has 5 on line professional development sessions covering topics such as twenty-first century challenges, manners, bulling and ethics and authentic learning and creativity. This website covers your needs and will help your teachers more effectively teach students how to be CyberSmart!

In this presentation cadre member Gabe Soumakian focuses on e-mail protocol and etiquette to improve effective communication. He shares proper ways to send group e-mails, manage your e-mails, and how to identify spam.

The Family Center on Technology and Disability is an excellent resource for administrators responsible for ensuring accessibility to the technologies involved in K-12 education. The site offers a range of information and services on the subject of assistive technology (AT). The site is particularly user friendly and has a great search engine, as well as many different articles and embedded links that target special needs populations, from the disadvantaged to the learning handicapped.

Richard Byrne provides highly-effective free resources for teachers daily on his blog, Free Technology for Teachers. Richard does not just list resources, he gives teachers ideas about using the resources he lists on the blog. There is something for educator. There is a link on his blog that makes it very easy to setup a service to receive daily updates on his blog posts.

This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and help maintain academic integrity in our schools. With Research Resources, teachers have access to suggestions for integrating plagiarism education into lesson plans, tips for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism and encourage original thinking, and help with identifying different types of plagiarism, in particular plagiarism from the Internet.

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